The first saturday of the month, there is a colour challenge at LIM. Today the colour was 'gold'.
My first reaction was 'Christmas Card' but, although it is July, I didn't want to send in a christmas card again.
Besides, LIM always challenges me, to make something out of my comfort zone. So I needed to think of something else.
The rest of the day went by, doing usefull things, things like laundry, tidying and cleaning the house. And just when I went crocery shopping, I had an idea. Buttons. I must have gold buttons somewhere. A heritage from my grandmother.
Looking trough my button box, I couldn't find the button I was looking for, but I did found another gold button.
So I took out my Button Buddies stamp set, and found a snail. I thought is was a perfect match.
I stamped the snail on a card and heat embossed it with gold embossingpowder.
Then I masked the snail, and stamped the grass with use of a Stamp-a-Magic. The same way I stamped some flowers in the grass.
I coloured the flowers with paintmarker, and the leaves with a blender pen and the stamped ink.
Then I removed the mask, and attached the button as if it was the shell of the snail.
Finally I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment.

29 opmerkingen:

Hola Marrigje WHAT CLEVER IDEA!! i love your button snail, very fresh and bright card, perfect for summer, great masking and colouring,and the sentiment is perfect with your snail:D:D good work marrigje.A hug from the melted island

Love your snail and thanks for bringing back fond memories of my mother and grandmother's button boxes. I loved to sort and count them as a child. Have you heard Stampin' Up! is going to open up for sales in the Netherlands? Let me know if you'd like to know more. Zx